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Doha or Stockholm?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
Doha

Photo: Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
Stockholm

Photo: Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped

Your match

Doha
38
match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

DohaStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Doha leads by 5 points.5
Food & drink. Stockholm leads by 9 points.9
Culture & sights. Stockholm leads by 22 points.22
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 37 points.37
Nature & outdoors. Stockholm leads by 65 points.65
Day trips. Stockholm leads by 63 points.63
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 22 points.22
Getting around. Stockholm leads by 39 points.39
Shopping & style. Stockholm leads by 10 points.10
Affordability. Doha leads by 8 points.8
Live music & performing arts. Stockholm leads by 35 points.35
Wellness & relaxation. Stockholm leads by 18 points.18
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Doha and Stockholm.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyDohaStockholm
Daytime high43 °C24 °C
Night-time low33 °C15 °C
Rainfall in the month0 mm60 mm
SunshineNo figure9 hours a day
Sea temperature33 °C16 °C
Daylight14 hours a day18 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
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J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Doha
23
24
29
33
40
43
43
42
39
36
30
25
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Doha
20
19
21
24
28
30
33
34
33
31
27
23
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Doha
11
11
19
4
2
0
0
0
0
1
7
19
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Doha
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Doha
No sunshine record
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Where the figures come from

Stockholm's temperatures are measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDohaStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
6 h 5 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 55 m
€321-368
DOH · 8 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
6 h 30 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
5 h 50 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
6 h 30 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
1 h 5 m
€190-202
DOH · 8 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
MalagaAGP
7 h 5 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
4 h 15 m
€126-131
ARN · 36 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
7 h 55 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 20 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureDohaStockholm
Official languageArabicSwedish
CurrencyQatari Rial (QAR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation0 m22 m
Main airportHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre195 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre173 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureDohaStockholm
City population1,186,023984,748
People per km²8,9855,260
Museums within 10 km6266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 monthsNone

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.